Severe COVID-19 outcomes among patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases or transplantation: a population-based matched cohort study

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARDs) and transplant recipients compared with matched general population comparators.

Design

Population-based matched cohort study using administrative health data sets.

Setting

British Columbia, Canada.

Participants

All adults with test-positive SARS-CoV-2 infections. SARS-CoV-2-positive patients with ARDs and those with transplantation were matched to SARS-CoV-2-positive general population comparators on age (±5 years), sex, month/year of initial positive SARS-CoV-2 test and health authority.

Outcome measures

COVID-19-related hospitalisations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, invasive ventilation and COVID-19-specific mortality. We pe

SUBMITTER: Marozoff S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9361749 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature